Martin Gaynor

@martingaynor.bsky.social

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Economist at Carnegie Mellon focusing on organizations and incentives, markets, competition, and antitrust, and health care. Formerly at the Antitrust Division, DOJ and at the FTC. Daf Yomi learner. Antitrust, Economics, Talmud puns. .. more

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Martin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 1d

The mask is off - he’s openly endorsing racism and antisemitism. Make no mistake - this will encourage and embolden haters with violent hate crimes as the result.

Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org

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Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening

On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...

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Martin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 1d

Never (but it hurts a bit less over time).

Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening

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Martin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 2d

Important work by my terrific colleague Lowell Taylor and co-authors. www.heinz.cmu.edu/media/2025/D...

Study of Effect of Funding Disparities on Black Student Outcomes in Mississippi in 1940 Suggests “A Tragedy in Racist Public Policy,” Authors Say

Black residents of Mississippi born a century ago had poor schools, particularly in the Delta region of the state, where most Black families lived as sharecroppers on former plantations. In a new stud...

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MS NOW @ms.now · 2d

BREAKING: The Hennepin County District Attorney's office says they have jurisdiction to charge the ICE agent involved in the fatal Minneapolis shooting.

Martin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 4d

Very sad indeed. A great scholar and a very kind and generous colleague. We were very fortunate to have him close by when he was at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Severin Borenstein @severinborenstein.bsky.social · 4d

Physically sickening to see the White House website defiled with lies about what happened on January 6. Republican politicians know what really happened and said so on 1/6/21. Now too cowardly to speak up.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...
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White House Posts False Jan. 6 Narrative on Riot’s 5th Anniversary

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 4d

In a breathtaking reversal of reality, Trump uses a taxpayer funded website to whitewash the history of Jan. 6, blaming Capitol Police, Democrats and Pence -- everyone but himself and the mob that stormed the Capitol. @lukebroadwater.bsky.social @alanfeuer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...

White House Posts False Jan. 6 Narrative on Riot’s 5th Anniversary

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Martin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 4d

I’ll take my commission in bread!

Martin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 4d

Does every program have its own bread or pastry?
Medicare - croissants
Medicaid - bagels
Part D - doughnut holes (obviously!)
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Martin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 4d

Is this post a recruiting promotion for CBO?

Martin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 4d

Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by a claim of research bias from a researcher who is clearly biased himself.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 4d

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration.

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 4d

Martin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 4d

No one can question @captmarkkelly.bsky.social’s patriotism, least of all someone who dodged the draft and let others serve and risk their lives in his place.

Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 5d

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Martin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 4d

tariff pass-through to U.S. import prices is almost 100 percent…” Timely work on who really pays for tariffs. www.nber.org/papers/w34620

The Incidence of Tariffs: Rates and Reality

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Reposted by Diane Coyle, Martin Gaynor, Aaron Sojourner

NBER @nber.org · 4d

Open call for papers, Economic Analysis of Regulation. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on April 24, 2026. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on February 10, 2026. More information: www.nber.org/calls-papers...

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Martin Gaynor, Gerald Friedman , and 6 more Nandita Sharma, Martin Gaynor, Gerald Friedman, James Goodwin, Henry Jones, Magda Teter, Aviel Roshwald, Farah Mendlesohn, David Darmofal

David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you Eugene Goodman for saving Democracy during the Capitol insurrection #January6th

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Anita @anita1956.bsky.social · 4d

My thoughts today are with the security people and police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 and have been treated with such distain since by the GOP. For them and the Democratic leadership who lived through such chaos and no doubt continue to carry the scars within. We will not forget.

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 5d

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Martin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 10d

Yup. Their Jewishness totally ignored, erased.

Martin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 10d

A wonderful colleague and friend gone too soon.

Martin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 10d

We lost Kate Ho far too soon. She was a brilliant scholar (anyone who works on the economics of health care markets is influenced by her work), a wonderful colleague & teacher, but first and foremost a fundamentally decent, kind & caring human being. She is missed. www.princeton.edu/news/2025/12...